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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

V.S. Naipaul

I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory

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